"He said, by way of comfort, I suppose, after the fright he gave me at first, that the child would find a friend within twenty-four hours, who would stand by him through life. He had not bothered to take off his raincoat and his umbrella sat dripping on his modern ice cube of a table. He was a shy boy outwardly but she knew him better in his thoughts, in which perhaps she had already taken upon the role of lover. Beneath the hood it was evident that her rebellious hair was bound up with red silk, and fastened by some device in her ears (unless she had them pierced, which was too dreadful a thing to suppose!) were long brass filigree earrings. Some of the delicate colour which the afternoon walk had brought into her cheeks had already returned. His kind eyes were puffy with fatigue. “You are Mademoiselle Pellissier?” he asked, without rising to his feet. Good-looking girl. "You can't go to sea with a book of rules. CHAPTER XXVIII. Both had dropped the rather elaborate politeness of the dining-room, and in their faces an impartial observer would have discovered little lines of obstinate wilfulness in common; a certain hardness—sharp, indeed, in the father and softly rounded in the daughter—but hardness nevertheless, that made every compromise a bargain and every charity a discount.
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